This is a very long read that takes a few paragraphs to get to the point. It’s a point other … More
Category: Tech tips
Rediscovering the telephone
Are you over video calls? Are email and quick messages too distanced? Is it currently difficult or impossible for you … More
What matters isn’t your writing software, it’s your file structures (sorry!)
Thanks to Anuja Cabraal who asked this question! It’s about 2,500 words of answer, so this is absolutely a Definitive … More
Successful non-verbal communication for video-conferencing
Now that we have transitioned to working from home, and worked out some of the technical issues about making things … More
Virtual Shut Up and Write: now with added Video
This post was co-authored by a really generous bunch of people, some of whom we met for the first time … More
Three secrets in MSWord that will supercharge your productivity
So Inger, Shaun and I have just finished another book. This one is called Level Up your Essays for undergraduate writers, and … More
Planning your day, your week, your month… or even your year
(I hope you sang the title to the Friends’ theme tune.) It can be a challenge to juggle lots of … More
How do I make my online teaching resources accessible?
Now that basically every course has at least some online components, making your web resources accessible is important. Because students … More
Teaching students to send good emails
I know most of my blog is about academic writing for theses, books and journal articles, but there is another … More
Yet another to-do list blog
Usually I keep my to-do lists as handwritten scrawls, as marginalia, as a schedule in my calendar, or I remember … More